The company that built dozens of schools now under investigation due to fire safety concerns is currently building six more schools for the Department of Education and was given the contracts after the fears emerged.

The company that built dozens of schools now under investigation due to fire safety concerns is currently building six more schools for the Department of Education and was given the contracts after the fears emerged.

Firefighters have called for an urgent review of all public and residential buildings built over the past decade in direct response to serious fire safety fears in Celtic Tiger-era schools.

The Government is receiving legal advice on what action to take over revelations six Celtic Tiger-era schools have been found to have serious fire safety fears.

Firefighters have called for an urgent review of all public and residential buildings built over the past decade in direct response to serious fire safety fears in Celtic Tiger-era schools.

The Department of Education has launched an immediate review of Celtic Tiger-era schools’ fire safety standards amid fears over the protections they would offer during a blaze.

Western countries face a “predominantly homegrown” jihadist terror threat after research found that almost three out of four attackers were citizens of the country they targeted.

British and US spies intercepted “chatter” from suspected militants and at least one other government suggesting that a bomb, possibly hidden in luggage in the hold, downed a Russian airliner on Saturday, killing all 224 people on board, Western intelligence sources said.

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US president Barack Obama’s administration sent a nuclear agreement with Tehran to congress yesterday.

A single farmer in Co Mayo has won the right to be buried on his own land.

The Roc Lago Rojo hotel in Torremolinos is currently one of Travelfox.ie’s best selling hotels and is included in a list of over 55 holidays by the company. 

Nato’s chief said that Russia had built up forces on the border with Ukraine and sent more military hardware into eastern Ukraine, enabling pro-Russia separatists to launch attacks with little warning if they chose.

More people are turning to acupuncture as an alternative treatment for their beloved pets, says Geoff Power 

The Russian rouble has fallen by more than 3% after escalated fighting in eastern Ukraine over the weekend.

Syrian rebels and government forces have started observing a 10-day truce in the last rebel-held area of the central city of Homs, marking another setback for opposition fighters, activists said.

The Ukrainian parliament has renounced Ukraine’s “non-aligned” status with the aim of eventually joining NATO, angering Moscow which views the Western alliance’s eastward expansion as a threat to its own security.

Pressure is mounting on Russia after it was accused of sending tanks, artillery and troops into Ukraine and Western powers said Moscow “outright lied” about its role and dangerously escalated the conflict.

Russia has banned most food imports from the West in retaliation for sanctions over Ukraine.

The killing of 295 people aboard a Malaysian airliner brought down over eastern Ukraine sharply raised the stakes in a conflict between Kiev and pro-Moscow rebels in which Russia and the West back opposing sides.

Mayo football manager James Horan has vigorously denied “disgraceful” reports of a rift between him and selector Donie Buckley.

Ukraine’s police and security forces are “helpless” to quell unrest in two eastern regions bordering Russia, the country’s president has said.

US President Barack Obama and Western allies moved to indefinitely cut Moscow out of a major international coalition today, including cancelling an economic summit Russian President Vladimir Putin was to host this summer.

Ukraine mobilised for war yesterday after Russian president Vladimir Putin declared he had the right to invade, creating the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the Cold War.

Ukraine’s opposition called for international mediation and appealed for Western financial aid for the first time in their protests against the president Viktor Yanukovych yesterday.

THIS year, Western troops will withdraw from Afghanistan after 13 years of war.

THIS weekend, Helmut Schmidt and Henry Kissinger will participate in a discussion at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) — just as they did a half-century ago, when they took part in the first “Internationale Wehrkunde- Begegnung” (the forerunner of today’s conference).

The international chemical weapons watchdog is meeting in the Netherlands to endorse a plan to destroy Syria’s deadly poison gas and nerve agent arsenal, most likely outside the country.

The main Western-backed Syrian opposition group has said it intends to join peace talks with the Syrian government if conditions are met.

HAS Pope Francis fudged his response to the first real test of his papacy? Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, Bishop of Limburg — dubbed the “Bishop of Bling” by the German media — appears to have got off lightly after splurging €31m on a luxurious new home.

International inspectors began destroying Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons and the machinery used to create it, a United Nations official said on Sunday.

Americans and a 'British woman' – believed to be from the North – were among the terrorists who attacked a Nairobi shopping mall, killing more than 60 people, Kenya’s foreign minister said today.

America’s security chiefs have met to review the threat of a terrorist attack that led to the weekend closure of 21 US embassies and consulates in the Muslim world and a global travel warning.

Syria’s President Bashar Assad said his opponents have “used up all their tools” and failed to overthrow his regime. The remarks came as Western-backed Syrian opposition figures gathered in Turkey for talks on electing a new leadership.

Topshop is opening its first Hong Kong outlet today, becoming the latest Western brand to brave the city’s high rents in a bid to crack the lucrative Chinese market.

Police in Bangladesh arrested two owners of a garment factory in a shoddily-constructed building that collapsed this week, killing at least 324 people, as protests spread to a second city today with hundreds of people throwing stones and setting fire to vehicles.

By abandoning much of the baroque pomp of his predecessor Benedict, the new pope has already won many admirers, write Philip Pullella and Catherine Hornby

Without a win since February 2010, Western Leader made a successful chasing debut in the Ratoath Community Beginners Chase in Fairyhouse yesterday, to the delight of trainer John Shark Hanlon and owner Barry Connell.

Iran has test-fired a range of weapons during military exercises near the Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for one-fifth of the world’s oil supply.

A senior Russian diplomat has warned the West against trying to predetermine a future leadership of Syria.